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Western Digital is planning to take its NAND flash chip partner Toshiba to international arbitration in a bid to prevent it from selling its 50 per cent stake in the two company's semiconductor unit to the highest bidder.

The Japanese company put its prize asset on the block after its US nuclear power business, Westinghouse, was put into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following a series of disastrous business decisions. Toshiba is planning to sell its 50 per cent stake in the semiconductor unit in a bid to plug a hole in the company's accounts, and to enable it to take Westinghouse out of bankruptcy protection.

Western Digital only acquired its 50 per cent stake in the business as a result of its $19bn acquisition of SSD maker SanDisk in May 2016. Toshiba claims that not only did it not raise any objections over that transfer of ownership, but that Western Digital never formerly updated the joint venture agreement between the two companies following the transfer. Toshiba claims that it is well within its rights to sell its 50 per cent stake to whoever it likes.

But Western Digital has not been put off by Toshiba's legal warnings earlier this month. Instead, Western Digital has begun arbitration proceedings with the International Chamber of Commerce with the aim of halting the sale of the assets without Western Digital's consent.

"The arbitration demand seeks among other things an order requiring Toshiba to unwind the transfer to Toshiba Memory, and injunctive relief preventing Toshiba from further breaching the Flash JV agreements by transferring its Flash JV interests, or any interest in an affiliate that holds its Flash JV interests, without SanDisk's consent," claimed Western Digital in a statement.

Western Digital CEO Steve Milligan added that a transfer of ownership without the consent of the joint-venture partner was explicitly prohibited by the terms of the agreement.

"In order to protect against being forced into such a relationship with parties not of their choosing, SanDisk and Toshiba agreed to protect their interests in the joint ventures by prohibiting transfers without the consent of the other party," said Milligan in the statement.

He continued: "Toshiba's attempt to spin out its joint venture interests into an affiliate and then sell that affiliate is explicitly prohibited without SanDisk's consent. Seeking relief through mandatory arbitration was not our first choice in trying to resolve this matter. However, all of our other efforts to achieve a resolution to date have been unsuccessful, and so we believe legal action is now a necessary next step."

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